1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jolan Victorium. Thanks so much for listening 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks for. 3 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:08,160 Speaker 2: Supporting the ministry. We believe you're going to have. 4 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 1: An awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive and favor filled. 5 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:16,159 Speaker 2: God bless you today and enjoy the message. God bless you. 6 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:19,160 Speaker 1: So great to be with you today, and I hope 7 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our 8 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 1: daily podcast or YouTube channel, social media, and you can 9 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 1: come visit us in person. 10 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 2: We'd love to have you be a part of one 11 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:29,720 Speaker 2: of our services. 12 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:32,199 Speaker 1: Now, I let you start with something funny, and I 13 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 1: heard about this country grandmother. She'd go out on her 14 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: porch every morning and thank the Lord for another day. Well, 15 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:42,160 Speaker 1: her neighbor didn't believe in God. He'd shout back, there's 16 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,239 Speaker 1: no such thing as the Lord. One day he overheard 17 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: her asking God to give her groceries for the week. 18 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:50,879 Speaker 1: He snuck out early the next morning put some groceries 19 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 1: on her front porch. She came out and said, thank you, Lord, 20 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: you did it again. He laughed and laughs at God 21 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: didn't do that. I put the groceries there. She said, Lord, 22 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 1: thank you. Thank you not only since the groceries, but 23 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: you made the devil pay for them, said, like you 24 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 1: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it 25 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 1: says I am. I have what it says I have. 26 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:16,039 Speaker 1: I can do what it says I can do. Today 27 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 1: I will be talked the word of God. I boldly confess. 28 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:23,559 Speaker 1: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 29 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 1: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 30 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about uncommon favor. 31 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:34,960 Speaker 2: We all have dreams that seem. 32 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: Too big to accomplish, and challenge is that we can't 33 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 1: overcome by ourselves. 34 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 2: We look at things in. 35 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 1: The natural, logically speaking, and reason it out, and sometimes 36 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: there's no answer. 37 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 2: It's easy to get discouraged. 38 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: But what God is going to do in your life 39 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 1: cannot be calculated. You can't plan it, you can't rationalize it. 40 00:01:57,880 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 2: It's going to be. 41 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: Uncommon, out of the ordinary, something that you've never seen, 42 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 1: and on purpose, God will put you in situations that 43 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,639 Speaker 1: are over your head. The good news is He's already 44 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: lined up the uncommon favor where doors open you couldn't open, 45 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: uncommon promotion where opportunity tracks you down, uncommon protection where 46 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 1: he shields you from evil, and uncommon freedom where He 47 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 1: delivers you from generational limitations. Where God has taken you 48 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 1: cannot be reached by just ordinary means. And yes, we 49 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 1: have to pray, believe, use our gifts, but you can't 50 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 1: fulfill your destiny with just the common. If you're only 51 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 1: looking at things in the natural and trying to figure 52 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: it out, you're. 53 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 2: Going to get discouraged. 54 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 1: What you can't see is the uncommon favor this coming. 55 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 2: Paul said this in Corinthians. 56 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: You haven't seen, heard, or imagined what God has in 57 00:02:57,680 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 1: store for those that love the Lord. 58 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 2: That's talking about uncommon favor. You haven't seen it yet. 59 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: You haven't heard it. You haven't even imagined it. When 60 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: you look at your situations. There may be no way 61 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 1: in the natural that is going to work out, no 62 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 1: way you could get well, no way that child will 63 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 1: get back on course, no way that. 64 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 2: You could lead your department. 65 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: That all may be true, there's no logical way. But 66 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 1: what you can't see is what God has stored up. 67 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 1: You haven't seen, heard, or imagined it. There's uncommon favor coming, 68 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: something unusual out of the ordinary. You couldn't plan it, 69 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 1: wasn't in your logic. We think natural, but God is supernatural. 70 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 2: There are things stored up for you right now. When 71 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 2: God releases it's gonna boggle your mind. 72 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 1: Blessings that have your name on it, healing, divine connections, businesses, books, movies, 73 00:03:56,160 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 1: things you never saw coming, wasn't on your radar to 74 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,839 Speaker 1: be unusual, out of the ordinary, something that you've never 75 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: imagined see. Ordinary favor is when you get the promotion 76 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 1: you deserved. 77 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 2: You were tard, you were faithful, you're next in line. 78 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: But uncommon favor is when God cat'll puts you ahead. 79 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 1: He gives you a position that you didn't see coming. 80 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: You weren't qualified, you didn't have the experience, but suddenly 81 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 1: you're at a level you never dream. Ordinary favor is 82 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:32,559 Speaker 1: when you pay your house off after thirty years. God 83 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 1: sustains you, provides and we're grateful. But uncommon favor is 84 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:41,479 Speaker 1: when you come into explosive blessings abundance that you never 85 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: saw coming. You pay it off in a fraction of 86 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,720 Speaker 1: the time. Ordinary favor is when you're able to deal 87 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: with the sickness and handle the addictions, learn to live 88 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:56,039 Speaker 1: with it. Uncommon favor is when God sets you free, 89 00:04:56,279 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: turns your health around, defies the odds, and yes, we're 90 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:03,720 Speaker 1: thankful for ordinary favor God's sustaining us. 91 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 2: We don't take that for granted. But I want you 92 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 2: to get ready. 93 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 1: For uncommon favor God's about to show out in your life. 94 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 1: You're coming into a year of uncommon promotions, opportunities chasing 95 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:22,359 Speaker 1: you down, uncommon influence, new levels of leadership and respects, 96 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:30,840 Speaker 1: uncommon wisdom, ideas, creativity that you've never had, uncommon healing, vitality, 97 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 1: and strength like when you were young. So forty says, 98 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 1: God has given me a new song to sing. Many 99 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: will see what he has done and be astounded. God 100 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: is going to do some new things in your life, 101 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: not what you've seen in the past. 102 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:49,719 Speaker 2: It's going to be unusual. 103 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: Where you're not only astounded, but people around you are. 104 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:55,119 Speaker 2: Going to be astounded. Kind of thing. 105 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:58,599 Speaker 1: How'd you accomplish that dream, How'd you beat that cancer? 106 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 1: How'd your child get back course? How did you pay 107 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:02,159 Speaker 1: their house off? 108 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 2: It's the most. 109 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: High God releasing uncommon favor what you haven't seen, heard, 110 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 1: or imagined. 111 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 2: We see this all through the scripture. When Jesus told 112 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 2: Peter to go back into the water. 113 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 1: And throw out his nets, he caught so many fish 114 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,160 Speaker 1: that the nets begin to break. The scripture says they 115 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,839 Speaker 1: were awe struck at the size of their catch. What 116 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 1: made it even more amazing is there were no fish 117 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:32,360 Speaker 1: there a few hours earlier. Peter had fished all night. 118 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 1: He knew when to fish and where to fish. 119 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 2: This wasn't the right time. They were too close to 120 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 2: the sword. None of the circumstances were favorable. 121 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: But God doesn't need your circumstances to be favorable to 122 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,840 Speaker 1: do something amazing in your life. God controls the fish, 123 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: He controls finances, He controls health, relationships, what doors are 124 00:06:55,760 --> 00:07:00,480 Speaker 1: going to open. He's not limited because odds are against you. 125 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 2: You don't have the connections. 126 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:06,039 Speaker 1: God will bring someone better than you can imagine. You 127 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 1: don't have the funds. God owns it all. He's not 128 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 1: having a down year. He told the disciples to go 129 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 1: to the lake, and the first fish they caught had 130 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 1: a coin in it, enough to pay all their taxes. 131 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: God was showing us that He's going to do things 132 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 1: unusual ways, ways you can't calculate, you can't plan, doesn't 133 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 1: fit into our logic. It's going to be supernatural, something 134 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: that leaves your awestruck. 135 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 2: Uncommon favor one time. 136 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 1: Peter was in prison for sharing his faith, and a 137 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 1: group of believers gathered at a house to pray for him. 138 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 1: The king had just had the disciple James put to death, 139 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: and now it looked like Peter was next in line. 140 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: They'd been praying all night and asking God to do 141 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 1: a miracle, and an angel showed up in the. 142 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 2: Prison, woke Peter up, and the doors opened of. 143 00:07:57,320 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 1: Their own accord, and Peter walked out of free man 144 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 1: was the middle of the night, so he went to 145 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: the house where they're all. 146 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 2: Praying and knocked on the door. A young woman answered it. 147 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: When she saw Peter, she nearly passed out. She was 148 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 1: so amazed she didn't open the door. She ran back 149 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 1: and told everyone it was Peter. They said, no way, 150 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: can't be Peter. 151 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 2: He's in jail. 152 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 1: Must be an angel the whole time Peter's out there 153 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 1: knocking on the door. The scripture says when they finally 154 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 1: opened it, they were astonished to see Peter. 155 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:32,439 Speaker 2: They stood there in awe. They thought God would do 156 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:35,680 Speaker 2: it in ordinary way. They were praying that God would. 157 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: Change the King's mind, give Peter mercy at the trial, 158 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 1: watch over him in the prison. They never imagined that 159 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 1: God would deliver him that night, that an angel would 160 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:48,960 Speaker 1: show up and open the doors. They couldn't plan that. 161 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:53,200 Speaker 1: Logically speaking, this would never happen. But God is not 162 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 1: always logical. His ways are not our ways. Ordinary favor 163 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:02,599 Speaker 1: would have brought him through the trial, giving him good attorneys, 164 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,199 Speaker 1: maybe he'll get probation, maybe he'll be released. But where 165 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,360 Speaker 1: God is taking you, and the calling he has on 166 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 1: your life is going to take more than just normal 167 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 1: good breaks, average promotion, ordinary protection, is going to take 168 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 1: uncommon favor. He's going to open doors that leave your austruts, 169 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 1: turn situations around that cause you to be astonished, take 170 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: your places where you're standing awe, How did this happen? 171 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:35,079 Speaker 1: Those are some of the things that God has stored 172 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 1: up for you that you haven't. 173 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 2: Seen, heard, or imagined. 174 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:42,960 Speaker 1: You may be facing challenges now and you don't see 175 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:47,199 Speaker 1: how they could work out all your planning, reasoning what 176 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 1: the experts say there are no good options. What you 177 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:55,319 Speaker 1: can't see is the uncommon favor that God is about 178 00:09:55,360 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 1: to release, uncommon healing, God doing what medicine can do, 179 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:09,439 Speaker 1: uncommon breakthroughs, problems that look permanent suddenly turning around, uncommon opportunities, contracts, 180 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:13,679 Speaker 1: businesses that takes your family to a new level. Well, Joe, 181 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 1: you're just trying to get people's hopes up. 182 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 2: You can't have faith if you don't first have hope. 183 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 2: What if I believe this and nothing happens? What if 184 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 2: you believe in it does happen? 185 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: If you don't believe, you go around negative doubting, joll 186 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 1: My problems are too big. 187 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 2: I think I've reached my limits. You're probably going to 188 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:34,680 Speaker 2: get stuck. 189 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 1: You have to give God something to work with. Faith 190 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 1: is what gets his attention. Dare to say, God, show 191 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:46,600 Speaker 1: out in my life this year, do something uncommon, out 192 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 1: of the ordinary, that leaves me astounded, astonished, in awe 193 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: of your goodness. I know a man that has a 194 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: home for men that are in tough times, and he 195 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 1: takes informer inmates from the prison. He has several hundred 196 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:04,680 Speaker 1: men living on his property and feeds them, clothes them, 197 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:05,959 Speaker 1: helps them to find jobs. 198 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 2: One Saturday, his main cook came in and said, we've 199 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 2: run out of food. We have nothing to cook today. 200 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: And they were down on funds and didn't have any 201 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 1: way to buy something. And this man told the cook 202 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,280 Speaker 1: not to worry that the Lord would provide. 203 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 2: They're just a few hours away from dinner. He didn't 204 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 2: know what to do. 205 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 1: He said, God, this ministry is in your hands, and 206 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: you said you supply all of our needs. 207 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:32,840 Speaker 2: So God, I'm. 208 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 1: Asking her to make a way, even though I don't 209 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:38,040 Speaker 1: see a way. A couple hours later, he got a 210 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:39,560 Speaker 1: phone call from the sheriff. 211 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 2: He works with. 212 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:44,559 Speaker 1: Local law enforcement on different projects, and the sheriff said, 213 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:47,560 Speaker 1: there's an eighteen wheeler this turned over on the freeway. 214 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 2: Can you bring some of your men to help us 215 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 2: clean up. 216 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 1: They got there and there were tens of thousands of 217 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: potatoes all over the freeway. The sheriff said, you pick 218 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 1: them up, and they're all yours. They had potatoes for 219 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 1: two years. God has unusual, uncommon ways to meet your needs. 220 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 1: But that man thought that surely God would send someone 221 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: to give a gift so he could buy the food, 222 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 1: or maybe the grocery store have leftover supplies, maybe a 223 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 1: restaurant would call. But God is going to do things 224 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:24,200 Speaker 1: out of the ordinary. 225 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:24,679 Speaker 2: Things you can't calculate. 226 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 1: The reason we get discouraged is we're trying to figure 227 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:30,840 Speaker 1: out how God's going to do it. We don't see 228 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:34,679 Speaker 1: a way joga. Medical reports not good. And here's how 229 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:35,440 Speaker 1: much I make. 230 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 2: If I save up for four hundred and twenty years, 231 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 2: I'll still be in debt. Can I encourage you? God 232 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:43,680 Speaker 2: has something coming that you can't see. 233 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 1: Uncommon favor is favor that leaves you astonished, awe struck, 234 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:51,600 Speaker 1: something you never imagine. 235 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 2: And the beauty is. 236 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: You don't have to make this happen, Strive, manipulate. That's 237 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: going to cause you to get frustrated where you at. 238 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 1: Leave it in God's hands. He's already lined up your 239 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:11,439 Speaker 1: Uncommon moments. Uncommon favor, A tatoes on a highway, uncommon, 240 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 1: increase coins in the fish's mouth, uncommon opportunity, having church 241 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 1: in a former basketball arena, uncommon healing. My mother's still 242 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 1: alive forty four years after being diagnosed. 243 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:25,640 Speaker 2: With terminal cancer. 244 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:30,679 Speaker 1: God has things that are out of the ordinary that 245 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:31,559 Speaker 1: you can't plan. 246 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 2: Blessings you haven't seen, heard, or imagine. 247 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 1: Ax seven says that God gave Joseph unusual wisdom. He 248 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 1: had an incredible mind for business and entrepreneurship. He was 249 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:49,080 Speaker 1: skilled in leadership and economics and finances, so much so 250 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: that the Pharaoh put him in charge of all the 251 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:52,840 Speaker 1: affairs of Egypt. 252 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 2: I declare that God is. 253 00:13:55,000 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: Going to give you unusual wisdom, uncommon understand you knew it. 254 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:04,560 Speaker 1: Then ideas creativity that will cause you to stand out, 255 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 1: to be a leader in your field, to make a 256 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:11,400 Speaker 1: difference for the kingdom. You have seeds of greatness on 257 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 1: the inside. God didn't create you to be average, but 258 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 1: to be outstanding. The scripture says God gave Mary uncommon 259 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 1: favor to conceive and give birth to the Messiah. Mary 260 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 1: could have never planned that no one had ever had 261 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 1: a baby without a man. 262 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 2: That wasn't possible. 263 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: But when God puts a dream in your heart, he 264 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 1: will give you the favor you need to bring it 265 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 1: to pass. 266 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:40,120 Speaker 2: And sure there will be times that what. 267 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 1: You're facing looks impossible. There's no way in the natural, 268 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 1: nothing more you can do. That's when God will step 269 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 1: in with uncommon favor, something you couldn't plan, talent that 270 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:55,960 Speaker 1: you didn't know you had, a door supernaturally opens, or 271 00:14:56,240 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 1: the right person tracks you down. Now quit worrying about 272 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 1: how it's gonna happen and losing sleep over what you 273 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 1: don't have, how the odds are against you. One touch 274 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 1: of God's favor will turn any situation around. The reason 275 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 1: it looks impossible is. 276 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 2: Because what God has coming is uncommon. You haven't seen 277 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 2: this favor before. 278 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 1: It's out of the ordinary. It's gonna catapult you Ahead. 279 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 1: Acts nineteen says God did unusual miracles in the life 280 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 1: of Paul. Seems like every miracle is amazing, but how 281 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:38,440 Speaker 1: about unusual miracles. It's significant that this happened in Paul's life. 282 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: You remember, Paul started off as a man named Saul. 283 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 2: He hated believers. He was the biggest threat to the church. 284 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: He went around arresting Christians and having them put in prison. 285 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 1: You would think if anyone was too far gone, it 286 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 1: would have been Paul. 287 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 2: But God has uncommon mercies. 288 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 1: People that we would write all think they're too far 289 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: off course, too wild, too dishonest. God never gives up 290 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 1: on us that relative you think is too lost, too sarcastic, 291 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 1: too addicted. You don't know what God has coming uncommon favor. 292 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:18,720 Speaker 2: Now they don't deserve it. They chose to go down 293 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 2: the wrong path. 294 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: But the scripture says, God, who is rich in mercy, 295 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 1: could have said he's rich in possessions. He owns it 296 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 1: all or rich in knowledge, he knows everything, rich in power, 297 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 1: he controls the universe. 298 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 2: But it describes him as rich in mercies. 299 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 1: While Saul was breathing out threats against the Church, a 300 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 1: bright light shine down from heaven knocked him off his animal, 301 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 1: and that moment. 302 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 2: He was supernaturally converted. 303 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 1: He became the apostle Paul that wrote almost half of 304 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:56,880 Speaker 1: the New Testament. The scripture calls this an unusual miracle. 305 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 1: Anyone that knew Saul back then could have never calculated this, 306 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 1: never reasoned it out. No sign he was going to change. 307 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:10,200 Speaker 1: But God, who is rich in mercy. Maybe you feel 308 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:12,920 Speaker 1: kind of like Saul. You're not where you should be 309 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:13,479 Speaker 1: in life. 310 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:17,440 Speaker 2: You think you've made too many mistakes. No, the mercy 311 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 2: of God is bigger than anything you've done. 312 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:24,920 Speaker 1: He's calling out to you today, saying, come home, get 313 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:25,840 Speaker 1: back on course. 314 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:29,640 Speaker 2: We need you in the family. We are better together. 315 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 2: You have something that makes us stronger. Or perhaps you 316 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:35,320 Speaker 2: have a loved one. 317 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:38,000 Speaker 1: This off course and doesn't seem like they'll ever get 318 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 1: back on track. 319 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:40,400 Speaker 2: No, they may. 320 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:44,920 Speaker 1: Run, but like with Saul, they cannot hide. Isaiah said, 321 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 1: the arm of the Lord is not too short that 322 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 1: it cannot save. God is going to reach down in 323 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:56,640 Speaker 1: his uncommon favor and rescue your child, protect your loved one, 324 00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 1: and bring them into their purpose. As for you and your. 325 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 2: You will serve the Lord. A man called our. 326 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: Serious XM program, and he'd been addicted to drugs for 327 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 1: many years. He'd gone to rehab fifteen times with no 328 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:14,440 Speaker 1: lasting success, and it's very down on himself. 329 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:17,879 Speaker 2: One Sunday morning, he went to the house where he 330 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:19,120 Speaker 2: would buy his drugs. 331 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:22,080 Speaker 1: The granddaughter lived in the back room and she had 332 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:24,960 Speaker 1: all this supply. He knocked on the door and the 333 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:27,359 Speaker 1: grandmother was in the front room on the couch. 334 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 2: She was bedridden, not able to move, and she was 335 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:33,119 Speaker 2: watching our services on television. 336 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:36,440 Speaker 1: She didn't know anything about what her granddaughter was doing 337 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 1: in the back and she greeted the man and asked 338 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 1: how he was doing. 339 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:43,800 Speaker 2: He said fine and just being polite. He asked how 340 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:44,440 Speaker 2: she was doing. 341 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:48,360 Speaker 1: She said, I'm doing great now that Joel's on television. 342 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:50,720 Speaker 2: Would just sit down and watch with me. 343 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:53,919 Speaker 1: He kind of felt obligated, like he had to his 344 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:56,919 Speaker 1: in her house. He sat there, never watched any kind 345 00:18:56,960 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 1: of religious program. I was talking that day about the 346 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 1: God who stoops how he reaches down and lifts us 347 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 1: out of the pit, and how you're never too far 348 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:08,639 Speaker 1: gone for the mercy of God. 349 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:12,200 Speaker 2: Now, as he sat there that day, he began to weep. 350 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 2: He felt a love, a peace. 351 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 1: Of freedom that he had never felt before. It was 352 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:21,680 Speaker 1: like chains were being broken off of him. He never 353 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:23,880 Speaker 1: did go back to the room to get the drugs. 354 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 2: He left that day a changed man. That was over 355 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:27,640 Speaker 2: five years ago. 356 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 1: Now he's a recovery coach helping other people get clean. 357 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:37,120 Speaker 1: He could have never planned that I'm gonna walk into 358 00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:40,200 Speaker 1: a house to purchase by drugs and sit and watch 359 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:42,200 Speaker 1: this good look and preach you on television. 360 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 2: Have change broken off of me. 361 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 1: That's uncommon favor, uncommon deliverance. That's what it's said about Paul, 362 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:51,440 Speaker 1: unusual miracles. 363 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 2: You may have situations right now where you can't. 364 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 1: Figure out how it's gonna happen, and how you're gonna 365 00:19:57,280 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 1: get well, or how you'll send your children to coll 366 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,760 Speaker 1: knowledge how you can break the addiction. The how is 367 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 1: not your part. You don't have to figure it out. 368 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 1: All you have to do is believe God. I want 369 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:12,840 Speaker 1: to thank you that you have uncommon favor come in 370 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:17,159 Speaker 1: my way. Things stored up for me that I haven't seen, heard, 371 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 1: or imagined. David was a teenager out taking care of 372 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:25,399 Speaker 1: his father's sheep and looked like he'd have an ordinary life. 373 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 1: He didn't come from an influential family or any kind 374 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: of wealth. I'm sure David felt like he was stuck 375 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 1: out there, like he could never do anything significant. But 376 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 1: every day you do the right thing, and you be 377 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:42,159 Speaker 1: your best at work, you good to your family, You 378 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:46,119 Speaker 1: keep God first place. You are passing the test, you 379 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 1: are showing God that he can trust you with more. 380 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:53,000 Speaker 1: And just because you don't see anything happening, doesn't mean 381 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 1: God is not working behind the scenes. 382 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 2: He's arranging things in your favor. 383 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:02,639 Speaker 1: While David was finding his own business going about another 384 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:07,359 Speaker 1: ordinary day, God spoke to the prophet Samuel to travel 385 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 1: to another city to Jesse's house, David's father, and to 386 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 1: annoint one of the sons. 387 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:14,920 Speaker 2: As the next king of Israel. 388 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 1: Imagine David out in the fields when he got word 389 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:20,120 Speaker 1: that this prophet is here. 390 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:24,200 Speaker 2: He's asking for you. David must have thought, you gotta 391 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,159 Speaker 2: be kidding. Why would he want me. 392 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 1: David was the youngest son, the smallest, the least experienced, 393 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:35,040 Speaker 1: but God said in Psalm eighty nine, I have selected 394 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 1: David from common people to become the king. You may 395 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 1: feel kind of ordinary, common, but. 396 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 2: You don't know what God has lined up for you. 397 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 1: You don't know who God has already spoken to about you, 398 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:52,480 Speaker 1: like Samuel, but they haven't shown up yet. 399 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 2: There's going to be a knock on your door. Your 400 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:58,359 Speaker 2: time is coming. Just keep being faithful. 401 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 1: You never know when you're going to get called in 402 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:01,880 Speaker 1: from the fields. 403 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 2: Nobody could have ever planned this for. 404 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:08,640 Speaker 1: David's life, no circumstance that he'd be in leadership, he'd 405 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 1: be the next king. 406 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 2: That was so far out. 407 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:14,520 Speaker 1: But God has things for you that you haven't seen, 408 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:19,120 Speaker 1: heard or imagined, uncommon blessings that will. 409 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 2: Come to you. 410 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,360 Speaker 1: When David went out to face Goliath, all he had 411 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,399 Speaker 1: was a slingshot and a few stones that he had 412 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:31,160 Speaker 1: picked up from the brook, ordinary things common. But when 413 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 1: God breathed on them, those stones brought down a giant. 414 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:38,120 Speaker 1: When you look at what you have, it may seem ordinary, 415 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 1: average talent, average looks, average resources. 416 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 2: That's okay. 417 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:47,160 Speaker 1: When God breathes on it, the ordinary will become extraordinary. 418 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:51,640 Speaker 2: What's common will become uncommon. Don't discount what you. 419 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:55,200 Speaker 1: Have heard about a five year old boy that loved 420 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 1: to play the piano. Anytime he got a chance, he 421 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,880 Speaker 1: would sit down and play the best he could, and 422 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:04,440 Speaker 1: he'd never had any lessons or formal training. All he 423 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 1: knew how to play was Chopsticks, just a very simple tune. 424 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,639 Speaker 1: One day, his father surprised him and got tickets to 425 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 1: the symphony to hear this world renowned pianist, one of 426 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 1: the greatest piano players alive. 427 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:20,440 Speaker 2: That night, as they were walking to their seats, the 428 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:21,399 Speaker 2: little boy. 429 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:25,439 Speaker 1: Always so curious and hard to stay still, looked behind 430 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 1: the curtain and saw this beautiful grand piano. Without anyone noticing, 431 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 1: he snuck over, sat down and started to play Chopsticks. 432 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:38,680 Speaker 1: About that time, the curtain began to rise. Everyone was 433 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,840 Speaker 1: expecting to see this master pianist. Instead they saw this 434 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:46,760 Speaker 1: little boy playing this elementary tunes. He was so caught 435 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 1: up in his world he didn't know everyone was watching. 436 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,439 Speaker 1: When he finally realized all eyes were on him, he 437 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:56,120 Speaker 1: was about to take off when he felt. 438 00:23:55,800 --> 00:24:01,000 Speaker 2: Two big hands reaching around him. Was the master, he 439 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 2: whispers in the boy's ear, keep playing. 440 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 1: As the little boy played his rendition of chopsticks, the 441 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 1: world renowned pianist began to play a Beethoven symphony piece 442 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,480 Speaker 1: that was scored in the same cadence and in the 443 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:16,120 Speaker 1: same key. 444 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:18,960 Speaker 2: Under the direction of the master. 445 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:23,480 Speaker 1: The orchestra began to join in, first the woodwinds, then 446 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 1: the brass, then the percussion. 447 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:29,040 Speaker 2: The father sat there in tears. It was amazed at 448 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:30,000 Speaker 2: what was happening. 449 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:34,640 Speaker 1: He never dreamed that simple, unpolished song that he'd heard 450 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 1: in his living room every day would no longer sound 451 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:43,840 Speaker 1: like chopsticks, but a full, beautifully perfected Beethoven symphony. 452 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:46,720 Speaker 2: What was the difference? The Master stepped in. 453 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:53,719 Speaker 1: Sometimes what we have feels ordinary, ordinary talent, ordinary looks, 454 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 1: ordinary opportunities. But if you'll stay faithful, at some point 455 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:03,679 Speaker 1: the will step in. God will take your ordinary and 456 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 1: breathe on it, and it will become extraordinary. 457 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 2: Never thought I could minister. 458 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,560 Speaker 1: My father had pastored here for forty years, and it's 459 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 1: a great pastor, and he'd gone to seminary and so 460 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,480 Speaker 1: powerful and talented, preached all. 461 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 2: Over the world. I didn't have any of that. 462 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:24,879 Speaker 1: I felt ordinary, average, But deep down I knew I 463 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,159 Speaker 1: was supposed to pastor. Now I took that step of faith. 464 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:32,320 Speaker 1: You know what happened. The Master stepped in. God took 465 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:36,080 Speaker 1: what was common and turned it into uncommon. He breathed 466 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:40,119 Speaker 1: on my talent, breathed on my ability. He's taken me 467 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:43,679 Speaker 1: where I never dreamed. I couldn't have planned this. I 468 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,840 Speaker 1: thought I'd stay behind the scenes and do television production 469 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 1: the rest of my life. What am I saying? God 470 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,399 Speaker 1: has some things stored up for you that you haven't seen, 471 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 1: you haven't imagined. It looks like just a slingshot, but 472 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,640 Speaker 1: when God breathes on it, it'll bring down giants. Moses 473 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 1: took his staff a piece of wood, something common. He 474 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:08,760 Speaker 1: held it up, and the Master stepped in. The Red 475 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:12,879 Speaker 1: sea parted something they had never seen. You may have 476 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 1: situations that look like they'll never turn around. 477 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:17,479 Speaker 2: Seems like you're stuck. 478 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:21,120 Speaker 1: Can I encourage you? The Master is about to step in. 479 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 1: God sees you doing your part, he sees. 480 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 2: You being your best. 481 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:31,360 Speaker 1: He's about to breathe on your family, breathe on your finances. 482 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:34,400 Speaker 2: Breathe on your health, breathe on your talent. He's already 483 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:35,439 Speaker 2: lined up some. 484 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 1: Of these uncommon moments for you, unusual miracles or in 485 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:44,240 Speaker 1: your future. Isaiah twenty eight says this time the Lord 486 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: will do something surprising, not what you expect. 487 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:50,879 Speaker 2: Now. I know God's done great things in the past, 488 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 2: but you haven't seen anything yet. 489 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,400 Speaker 1: I believe in declare this is gonna be a year 490 00:26:56,760 --> 00:27:03,320 Speaker 1: of uncommon favor for you, uncommon opportunity, uncommon healing, uncommon 491 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:07,640 Speaker 1: victories in Jesus' name, And if you receive it, can 492 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 1: just say amen. I'd like to give you an opportunity 493 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 1: to make Jesus the Lord of your life. 494 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 2: Would you pray with me? 495 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 1: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins, Come 496 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:22,359 Speaker 1: into my heart. 497 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 2: I make you my Lord and savior. 498 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:27,800 Speaker 1: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 499 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,760 Speaker 1: born again. We'd love to send you some free information 500 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,359 Speaker 1: on your new walk with the Lord. You can text 501 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:34,760 Speaker 1: the number on the screen or. 502 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 2: Go to the website. 503 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:38,879 Speaker 1: But I hope you'll get into a good Bible based 504 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,359 Speaker 1: church and keep God first place. 505 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,960 Speaker 3: It's a new year, an opportunity for a fresh start. 506 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 3: It's a new year, time to forget the struggles of 507 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:52,679 Speaker 3: the past and make room for new blessings. It's a 508 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:56,560 Speaker 3: new year, the perfect time to build expectation and faith 509 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 3: for an amazing new season. 510 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:01,640 Speaker 1: The beginning of the is a great time to start 511 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,680 Speaker 1: afresh and a new to let go of negative things 512 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 1: of the past and to get ready for the new 513 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 1: things God has in store. Every January we create a 514 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:14,760 Speaker 1: new devotional calendar. When you start off each day in faith, 515 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:19,200 Speaker 1: grateful for what God has done, making positive declarations over 516 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 1: your future, you're setting the tone for a blessed day 517 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:26,439 Speaker 1: and a victorious year. This devotional calendar will help you 518 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 1: get your mind going in the right direction so you 519 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,280 Speaker 1: can live in faith expecting the goodness of God. 520 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,440 Speaker 3: As our way of saying thank you for your gift 521 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:38,000 Speaker 3: of any amount this first month of the year, we 522 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,240 Speaker 3: would like to send you a copy of our brand 523 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 3: new twenty twenty five three hundred and sixty five day 524 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 3: devotional calendar. Using this devotional calendar is as easy as one, two, three. 525 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,600 Speaker 3: One wake up with an expectancy in your heart. Two 526 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,200 Speaker 3: reflect on the daily scripture, verse and devotional from Joel. 527 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:01,400 Speaker 3: Three capture the Lord's promises to you on journaling lines 528 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:02,720 Speaker 3: for writing and reflection. 529 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 2: This is going to be one of your best years. 530 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 1: Our twenty twenty five devotional calendar is going to help 531 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,360 Speaker 1: you stay in faith and see the goodness. 532 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:12,880 Speaker 2: Of God in ways you've never seen. 533 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,560 Speaker 1: Victoria and I pray for you and your family every day, 534 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,360 Speaker 1: and thank you so much for your prayer and support. 535 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 1: Your generosity is impacting lives around the world. And a 536 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:26,680 Speaker 1: special thank you to our Championship Hope partners. 537 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:27,520 Speaker 2: For your monthly gifts. 538 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 1: If you're not a partner, I hope you'll consider becoming one. 539 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:35,080 Speaker 1: Remember you can watch the services online live every Sunday morning, 540 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:39,479 Speaker 1: download our daily podcast, watch on YouTube now the new 541 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,320 Speaker 1: joel Osteine Network twenty four hours a day, and of 542 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 1: course listen live on SiriusXM as well. But until we 543 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 1: meet again, met the Lord bless you and keep you, 544 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,600 Speaker 1: may show you His favor and watch over you. 545 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 3: Be sure to request your copy of the twenty twenty 546 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 3: five devotional calendar today. Visit Joelostein dot com or cull 547 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 3: Us Well free 548 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:04,960 Speaker 1: HM